We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.